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Left behind?
I’m calling in reference to road signs that VDOT has left on the side of the road on Timberline Drive. They did some work on it about two months ago and about four of the five signs are still standing. I just wondered why they haven’t picked them up. Just a matter of why they are standing there.

No bull
I’m reading The Gazette about the elections and I see a lot of new faces. The sad part about the elections is, when these new people get in their jobs, it is going to be just like when kids go to play football. It’s going to be, “you do it our way or it’s the highway.” That ain’t no bull. I have lived here for 58 years. It’s their way or the highway. Remember that.

Who will you trust?
I can’t believe what I just read in The Gazette. First, hats off to Galax Police Chief Rick Clark and the five city council members who voted for the “In God We Trust” motto. The two [who voted against the measure] who say they are of faith — who are you going to trust on your deathbed? I bet you pray to God.

Be thankful
This is a response to the comment about the menus at Grayson County. Who knows what is going on there. But the poor cafeteria ladies at these schools serve what they are told to serve. They fix what they are told to fix. They do go by their menus. These menus are regulated. We should be thankful the kids are eating a nutritious meal because this may be the only meal some of those kids actually get a day.

A Galax accomplishment
I surely would have liked to have received a scholarship when I graduated from Galax High School as would have my sisters. But, there was no such thing in our day. The Foundation for Excellence in Education is a fine accomplishment for the City of Galax. How great it must be to get financial help for a college education. Way to go.